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The file choosers are opened in the home dir, not in the location, where the freeform project files are.
Fixed.
This issue was solved long time ago. Because nobody has reopened it neither added comments, we are verifying/closing it now. If you are still able to reproduce the problem, please reopen. Thanks in advance.